October 10th:

- Seminar calendar
- Seminar work plan
- Messages/notices on a digital wall: http://wallwisher.com/
- Supplementary resources: Pulitzer demo
- Some resources to learn/ teach English:


For instance: Our ideas on a wall!






















Drama resources:
https://www.dramanotebook.com/free-activities/


November 14th: Seminar postponed because of the strike

December 12th:

Some web 2. 0 applications:
- A resource to create comics: Toondoo





- A resource to create certain reading activities: Textactivate




Seminar on January 16th

• Here is English Guide, a site where you may get different links to get vocabulary, listening, writing, grammar ... activities.
• KidsClick is a "super-safe search engine for your kids" (according to the BBC).
• This Using English for Academic Purposes website is intended to be a guide for students in higher education, but some of the resources may be useful for secondary students too.
  

We may explore how to create a timeline with timetoast, for instance. We may use Gandhi's biography according to Enchanted Learning to get information in order to create our own timeline.










Seminar on February 20th.

• European Projects: Helen´s experience.
• How to insert a video into a powerpoint presentation: Lucía´s explanation
• Podomatic: Brief presentation.

Seminar on March 13th.

• Presentation of websites: TES and English Zone.
• Voicethread

• TED is a website where people give speeches about different subjects. It isn´t particularly for students but for teachers to listen or practise English.
• Aula Fácil is another website where you can find exercises for different levels of English and it is free.

Seminar on April 17th

• ISEI-IVEI resources on testing oral communication -speaking and oral interaction. You may find those resources on this Berritzegune Nagusia sites
• Google reader presentation if time allowed

Seminar on May 15th

• Film English is a website where you can find designed lessons around short films.
• Picture Teller is a tool to prepare presentations which allows you to zoom and pan(hacer una panorámica) as you can see in the example.
• If we have got time, we'll have a look at voxopop an e-learningtool to help students develop their speaking skills

Seminar on May 29th

On our last day we went through different applications and websites:

• Two websites to work with songs: lyricsgapsThis is a webpage where you can find songs, with their videos, do exercises of different levels and even get the song translated (below the exercise about the song). If you become member of the site you can download the exercises. lyricstraining This is another webpage to practise English with songs. You can choose the difficulty of the exercise which consists of filling in the gaps with the correct word.
• Pixton.This is an application to create comics. It is easy to use and appealing for students.
• We learnt about Linguee and Reverso, two online translators. On Linguee you can find the word you want to translate in different contexts. In Reverso you can listen and learn how the word is pronounced.
• Bogglesworld is a website where you can find all kind of exercises, crosswords, flashcards, lesson plans, phonic...
• UK Jobs Guide. It is not the webpage we saw in class but it is a similar one where you can find information about job vacancies in the UK. It can be useful to use in class as it contains up-to -date information about jobs in the UK and students can use it to learn new vocabulary.

Have a nice holiday!!